Purposeful
A big thought for the morning: the purpose of virtual worlds (like second life) is to map out what can happen in the future, modeling near future alternatives, visioning long term goals. From H+ magazine, Surfdaddy Orca says, “Metanomics is an emerging – even edgy – field of academic study that deals with the economic, [...]
Using Thunderbird and Windows Mobile for Podcasts
I’ve been away from the blog too long: servers down, daytime job too long, interviews and such. The list of other demands goes on. Back at Christmas I was talking with my friend Todd about pulling podcasts onto my new PDA-phone. It took just about as long to get that started too. The gap was [...]
Autodesk Goes Open Source with Mapserver
The Mapserver folks from the University of Minnesota and Autodesk are working together to create the Mapserver Foundation. UMN MapServer will be Branded MapServer Cheetah. Autodesk will be releasing their next generation map platform, the successor to MapGuide, as MapServer Enterprise. Both will be open source. From their open letter: “Forming the foundation is only [...]
Autodesk Goes Open Source with Mapserver
The Mapserver folks from the University of Minnesota and Autodesk are working together to create the Mapserver Foundation. UMN MapServer will be Branded MapServer Cheetah. Autodesk will be releasing their next generation map platform, the successor to MapGuide, as MapServer Enterprise. Both will be open source. From their open letter: “Forming the foundation is only [...]

